Photo: (L-R) Front row; Kogi Gov Yahaya Bello; APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje; former Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development & erstwhile Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Dame Pauline Tallen; and others, during the inauguration of members of the party’s National and State Campaign Councils for the Kogi November 11 Guber polls in Lokoja.
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has inaugurated the recently constituted members of the Party’s National and State Governorship Campaign Council in Kogi State.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that both the State and National Gubernatorial Campaign Councils were inaugurated by the APC national chairman in Lokoja on Saturday.
While Dapo Abiodun, Governor of Ogun State, heads the national campaign Council, Alh Yahaya Bello, Kogi Governor, heads the state campaign council.
Gov Abiodun will lead the APC’s campaign council for the Kogi governorship as chairman of a 135-member council.
Other prominent members of the campaign council are three co-chairmen: Gov Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos); Gov Umar Bago of Niger and Gov Uba Sani (Kaduna); and former Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Dame Pauline Tallen.
Ganduje, while inaugurating the campaign organizations, tasked the citizens of Kogi to give the party nothing less than 99 per cent support and victory votes in the Nov. 11 Governorship Election.
The former Kano State Governor noted that Kogi was a traditional APC state, and so he believed that the people would come all out to cast their votes solely for APC entrenchment of good governance.
“Today we are officially inaugurating the state campaign committee that will join hands with the national campaign committee and the LGAs campaign committees to ensure victory at the polls.
“You have tested good governance from Gov. Yahaya Bello’s administration and as a party, we hope to do more with our flagbearer, Alhaji Usman Ododo, once elected into office.
“Ododo is your son, whom you know very well as a very loyal and hardworking person that is ready to serve you and the state in the capacity of governor.
“We are expecting nothing less than 99 per cent victory votes from the people of Kogi in this forthcoming Nov. 11 governorship election, ” he said.
He told the residents that President Bola Tinubu had promised to support the state in providing an enabling environment required for peaceful and credible conduct of the governorship election.
Also, Gov Yahaya Bello gave assurance that the citizens of Kogi were all ready to cast their votes for APC, given the choice of a credible and articulate candidate in the person of Ododo.
“Alh Usman Ododo, the APC Governorship Flagbearer, is politically well groomed, with the needed experience and competence, to lead Kogi to the next level of its development.
“Here in Kogi, we are of the belief that with Ododo as my successor, he will leverage on my performances to turn around the fortunes of the state to greater heights, ” he said.
The governor said that all that was needed was for all residents to rally round APC and Ododo on Nov 11 for total victory “since we don’t have any serious opposition party posing any challenge or threat to our success here in Kogi.”
Ododo, the APC flag bearer, shortly after being presented with the party’s flag with his deputy, Oyibo Salifu, thanked President Bola Ahmed-Tinubu, Bello, the entire party members in Kogi for their support and encouragement.
He said when elected as governor on Nov. 11, he expressed the hope to build on the enduring legacies of Gov. Bello, especially in the area of security, education, health and Agriculture to bring about the state’s desired growth and development.
